or at least not subtracting away. in europe you've seen it to an extreme. they can't stimulate their economies easily with their federal bank. they're a bunch of countries. it's not centralized. they're not dealing with it on a fiscal basis. you actually have actual depressions in parts of europe instead of just, you know, the slow uneven recovery that we've had to experience. we're much better off. that said, we could be much, much better off. we could be to escape velocity now where the unemployment rate is plummeting instead of edging down each month by a tenth or so. or we can see participation rope coming back. and we would be seeing that if we didn't lose a percent and three quarters to a fiscal policy this year. >> and that's how much you think we're going to lose? >> that's how much we'll lose if they keep the sequester going through september. it looks like right now they're not willing to compromise enough on it. that's unfortunate. you saw some movement in this direction...